collaborators uncovered details in a woman's portrait over which the artist later painted blooming grasses.
The weather is getting warmer, flowers are blooming, the grass is growing and marriage season is once again upon us.
"I spotted a few flowers blooming among the grass," she says.
Whereas nearly 130 years ago, the settlers raced under perfect skies across a promising landscape of tall prairie grass, blooming dogwoods and "primordial trees uncut," Anderson staggers down the shoulder of Highway 62, past extinct strip malls, abandoned churches, a yard sale of animal cages and a Rottweiler straining against its chain.
The Perennial Plant Association in the U.S. chose as its Perennial Plant of the Year Calamagrostis xacutiflora Karl Foerster, a natural hybrid of Calamagrostis epigejos and Calamagrostis arundinacea; the long-blooming grass was first found in the Hamburg (Ger).
By contrast, almost all of the 150 native species in Brooklyn (the goldenrods, the flat-topped asters, the cute little blue-eyed grasses blooming in the meadow, as well as the moisture-loving pitcher plants and orchids, the lichens and bearberry of the sandy Pine Barrens) were collected within 200 miles of New York City.
Flying over these cities on my way to some soiree in San Francisco or Seattle I wonder what life is like down there in a little town nestled at a confluence of rivers surrounded by farms, grasses blooming emerald in the spring and turning auburn gold in the fall.
At the water agency headquarters, a veritable wonderland of desert plants grow in a sort of outdoor laboratory, including flowering sage, blooming ocotillos, exotic grasses and other drought-tolerant specimens.
"Plant walking is almost as slow as bird-watching". Participants can expect to see early blooming bulbs, native grasses and some of the usual plants of the coastal sage scrub community.
Another example of this seasonal brevity is the recent blooming of common whitlow grass.
Vineyards splayed out beyond the wedding canopy: the late afternoon air was fragrant with the smells of freshly cut grass and blooming lavender.
